The Reptile Room

Throughout the story, Chopin adds bits of foreshadowing to hint at the demise of Mrs. Mallard. On the opening page of the story, the first sentence states, “Knowing Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble, great care was taken to break her...husband's death” (6). This sentence leads the reader to believe that Mrs. Mallard is already gravely ill. On the final page of the story, Mrs. Mallard argues with her sister, Josephine, who fears that Mrs. Mallard is making herself sick from heartbreak. Mrs. Mallard shouts, “Go away. I am not making myself ill” (8). This foreshadows that she is already making herself sick.

At the beginning of this story Chopin makes the read feel sorrowful. The phrase “storm of grief” is a powerful metaphor that makes a feeling of somberness come over you. Later in the story, the mood shifts from sadness to suspense. “There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully.” That phrase makes the reader both wonder about and fear what is coming. Suddenly, the reader feels a rush of joy for Mrs. Mallard, the main character. She realizes that, “she would live for herself,” and the reader shares her joy. The emotional rollercoaster continues all the way to the end of the story, showing that Kate Chopin is a master of

In my view, the transformation of Mary and Collin from wicked and self-important children, into positive and hopeful ones is the vital theme of this book. As Dickon’s mother mentioned in the book: “Children who are not wanted scarce ever thrive.” Children might somehow be distorted in terms of self-development. However, we cannot underestimate the power of our surrounding. As I mentioned last time, kids are easily affected by the adults around them. If negations always come up in their daily life, kids are inevitably influenced by the negative thoughts, thus lead their life into self-destruction. Not to mention our main characters, Mary and Collin, were both deserted and disliked by their own

Mrs. Mallards emotions were so high from day dreaming about how she was free that wend she found out that her husband wasn’t dead, it was so devastating that she died from her heart weakness “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills” (Chopin). Miss. Brill in the other hand was hit with her harsh reality by two young children “But why? Because of that stupid old thing at the end there?" asked the boy. "Why does she come here at all— who wants her?

People’s homes tell a lot about the individual who lives there. From the choice of furniture, to the color of the walls, even the food in the house, are all reflections of the people who bought it. More importantly the home allows for an individual to express himself or herself freely without fear of public ridicule. People are their true selves in their own homes. It is also true however that people are victims of their surroundings, and their homes enforce certain ideals onto people. This remains true in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, as the characters express their internal desires through their actions and thoughts at home. In the crowded metropolis of St. Petersburg, the small living spaces confine characters into

The theme of this book is that the human capacity to adapt to and find happiness in the most difficult circumstances. Each character in the novel shows this in their way. For instance, their family is randomly taken from their home and forced to

In the beginning of the story it said in paragraph 34-35 that after when William said something the kids said “You wouldn’t remember anything from that long ago”!. They were followers to William and not doing what they could have done and just stayed out of it or maybe even help out Margot instead of being mean to her like William. When it William put Margot in the closet they just followed instead of saying something or even going to get the teacher and tell on him and what he is doing.They were ruining their only way of happiness too because if they didn't follow in William's footsteps they would've been better off without him. In the end they were the ones who told him that Margot was in the closet they must've felt even worse at the end of the story because of what they realized what they have done to her. This is proof that the children changed in the

Chopin employs the use of symbolism to further her theme by using Louise’s heart and its disease as key symbols. In the beginning of the short story, the author informs the audience that Louise “was afflicted with a heart trouble,” which caused her husband’s friend and her sister to try to tell her about the mining accident gently. Shockingly, after her worrying phase of initial grief, Louise becomes joyful and “her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.” Her sister was worried that she was stressing her

To understand this theme one must first understand the characters in this book. A prime example of an unhappy character

This is an essay which will primarily discuss the items in my life and possibly your life which particularly annoy, aggravate, irritate, infuriate or events in life we just find completely maddening. This essay is almost based on the novel, called "Room 101".

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ln Atwood’s essay about Nineteen Eighty-Four, the lesson that was learned is that not everything is not as it seems. Atwood summarizes the book and explains the importance of Room 101, and how it is not only a metaphorical figure. She teaches the reader how the problems that are in Nineteen Eighty-Four are not only issues that are in a book, but how they occur in our world today.

The main theme was that being deprived of something can drive a person to do horrible things. This is shown in the story when the children do something horrible to another child, because she had seen the sun, and they hadn’t. The children acted upon impulse, and decided that they wanted to make her suffer as they had. The children are jealous of Margot, and her familiarity with the sun.

As they are heading up Mortmain Mountain, Violet and Klaus look out the window to see one of Count Olaf’s associates cutting the rope that is connecting the caravan to the car. The eldest Baudelaires scream as they started rolling down the mountain. Lemony Snicket interrupts and says, “the story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughing at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the sinister mystery that surrounds them, and in this real world the arrival of lions means that the story is about to get much worse,” (97). No matter how good the children are and no matter what they try to do to stop Count Olaf from ruining their lives, they can’t stop the inevitable bad things that are happening to

There are myriad levels of symbolism which Chopin invokes in order to express the principle theme of this work. The very fact that the protagonist of the story, Mrs. Mallard, learns that her husband has died symbolizes the fact that she is now free from his will and influence upon her life. However, Chopin chooses to express this notion most efficaciously by expressing Mrs. Mallard's newfound liberty or what she believes is her newfound liberty through the symbolism of spring, as the